"""Original temperature-volume solution plot; output PNG basename in cwd. Tested with Python 3.14.4, matplotlib 3.10.7, and numpy 2.3.5. Dependencies are declared in the repository's top-level pyproject.toml. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): gamma, pressure_ratio, heating_ratio = 1.4, 10.0, 2.0 v1, t1 = 1.0, 1.0 v2 = v1 * pressure_ratio ** (-1 / gamma) t2 = t1 * pressure_ratio ** ((gamma - 1) / gamma) v3, t3 = heating_ratio * v2, heating_ratio * t2 v4, t4 = heating_ratio * v1, heating_ratio * t1 fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7.4, 4.9), layout="constrained") fig.patch.set_facecolor("white") high_ray = np.linspace(0, v3, 150) low_ray = np.linspace(0, v4, 150) ax.plot(high_ray, pressure_ratio * high_ray, "--", lw=1, color="#ba3737") ax.plot(low_ray, low_ray, "--", lw=1, color="#2463a5") paths = [ (np.linspace(v1, v2, 150), lambda v: t1 * (v1 / v) ** (gamma - 1), "#454545", r"$1\to2$: adiabatic compression"), (np.linspace(v2, v3, 100), lambda v: pressure_ratio * v, "#ba3737", r"$2\to3$: heat in at $p_h$"), (np.linspace(v3, v4, 150), lambda v: t3 * (v3 / v) ** (gamma - 1), "#8b6b40", r"$3\to4$: adiabatic expansion"), (np.linspace(v4, v1, 100), lambda v: v, "#2463a5", r"$4\to1$: heat out at $p_l$"), ] for volume, law, color, label in paths: temperature = law(volume) ax.plot(volume, temperature, lw=2.3, color=color, label=label) j = len(volume) // 2 ax.annotate("", xy=(volume[j + 6], temperature[j + 6]), xytext=(volume[j - 6], temperature[j - 6]), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "-|>", "color": color, "lw": 1.8, "mutation_scale": 15}) for number, volume, temperature, offset in [ (1, v1, t1, (-5, -18)), (2, v2, t2, (-18, 1)), (3, v3, t3, (7, 1)), (4, v4, t4, (7, -2)), ]: ax.plot(volume, temperature, "o", color="black", ms=4) ax.annotate(str(number), (volume, temperature), xytext=offset, textcoords="offset points", fontsize=12, weight="bold") ax.text(0.075, 0.72, r"$p_h=10p_l$", rotation=72, color="#ba3737") ax.text(0.55, 0.35, r"$p_l$", color="#2463a5") ax.set(xlabel=r"Volume $V/V_1$", ylabel=r"Temperature $T/T_1$", title="Two-pressure gas engine in temperature-volume coordinates", xlim=(0, 2.25), ylim=(0, 4.3)) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) ax.legend(loc="upper right", frameon=False, fontsize=9) fig.savefig(Path(__file__).with_suffix(".png").name, dpi=145, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()